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Die Landkarte Des Himmels (2012)

by Félix J. Palma(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

346340625X (ISBN13: 9783463406251)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Kindler

series

Trilogía Victoriana

review 1: Have I taken crazy pills? Why is everyone so in love with this vastly inferior sequel? If you read Map of Time and do not see the ending a mile away, you're not paying attention. I kept hoping that the book would turn away from it's obvious resolution but it did not. I truly like the way the author writes but it seems that he doesn't feel satisfying resolution is necessity. It must be me. I have no intention of finishing this trilogy.
review 2: Not really sure what to say about this book... Like the first, it was told in parts with different parts following different people, and seemingly disparate threads ultimately coming together - though the threads were a bit more straightforward in this one, if I recall correctly.Also like the first, some of the parts we... morere interesting and others were long and overly rambling and boring. Unlike the first, though, I felt there were more boring parts than not in this one, and the pay-off just lacked punch. It felt kind of hokey, to be honest - epsecially the whole "but it's really about the super love story" schtick at the end.Anyway - I sort of feel like I should go into the different parts, the references to Poe and how I liked that Wells was a bigger part of this story, though I wasn't entirely thrilled to see Gilliam again, and I started to get annoyed that they were being so coy about Shackleton.The prologue was good, and pulled me in, initially.Part 1 started well, but went on too long, though it was interesting to see it revisited at the end. (Of course, since I read this book so slowly and sporadically, I had to sort of go back and refresh myself on some of the particulars by the time I got around to it.)Part 2 was one of those things that was ok while I was reading it, but I never felt any real compulsion to pick it back up. I went for stretches where I kind of forgot I was even reading it, except when I saw it on my 'currently-reading' widget on my home page.Part 3 was the worst. Charles' whole story was way too long and boring.The ending with Wells could've been decent, except for the pages of philosophical waffle which, again, could be interesting - what is the nature of time and space and fate, etc - except it ended up being very repetitive and circular and I was like, "Just freaking get to the end already!".So, yeah... I didn't love the first book - rated it 3 stars - but I was interested enough to continue. After this one, though, I'm not really sure how I feel about finishing out the trilogy. Blech. less

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